#Adapted From A Novel

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Meet You at the Blossom | S01E12

Chinese Drama - 2024, 12 episodes

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Native Title: #花开有时颓靡无声

A: “Hua Kai You Shi, Tui Mi Wu Sheng” (花开有时, 颓靡无声)

Genres: #Romance #Historical #LGBTQ+

Tags: #Adapted from a Novel

Cast: #Li Le #Wang Yun Kai #Li Jun Liang

[anliafail]

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH (Stephen Lewis) and KELLY MACDONALD (Julie Lewis) in THE CHILD IN TIME (2017) | dir. Julian Farino

[sad-girl-shit11]

The Creation

A Frankenstein based short story.

Tw: death, killing a pig, gore, blood, intense talk of suturing, etc..

Some believe Frankenstien to be the monster. The creature stitched together with thread, only alive because of electrostatic discharges. Some believe they know the truth. That Frankenstein was the scientist who played with the very idea of life and death like a new child does a gifted toy. Carelessly, and without a thought of what future consequences may occur.

Frankenstein was the monster. He was a cruel and unforgiving force. He was a monster who lacked humanity and craved power. Frankenstein was a man without a heart, a creature without a soul. He toyed with the villagers of his town. Taking their very lives into his monstrous hands and throwing them up and down as if they were nothing but a toy.

Up

Down

Up

Down

The thunder outside shakes the entirety of the room, from the cup on the counter behind to the table in front of me. It is the perfect weather for this ceremonious event.

White flashes of lightning burst just outside the balcony of this tower, illuminating the room I've occupied. The light washes over the operating table I have dragged up the spiral staircase just behind me. The light also illuminates the deep crimson lake drizzling down the table, making its way from the body sized puddle it originated from.

As I stand in awe of the horrific scene before me the door to the balcony flies inwards, allowing the invisible force that is wind to invade the circular room. Although an irritating presence, I make no move to shut the opened doors. I have far bigger things to focus my mind on. Things that have to do with the detached limbs, resting on the rectangular steel bed in the middle of my tower.

The limbs are pale, however they still resemble the pinkish color they originally were. The color they were when the heart the limbs belonged to was still beating, when the brain they used to take commands from was still alive. Now, here on this cold grey table they lie. Waiting, yearning to be a part of something bigger once more.

I turn around from my place in front of the operating table to the cabinets above my counter to my left. I walk over to my counter and pull out a drawer, my hand gripping the heart shaped drawer pull. From inside of the drawer I pull out a physician's bag, equipped with all one may need when faced with something as great as this. Taking the brown leather bag, I turn back towards my masterpiece, or rather my work of progress.

Settling into the stool at the front of the operating table, I stare into my art work. The skin pulled tightly over the bones, the sunken eyes, and the crystal white bones that poke out from each body part.

To some, what I do next may be unholy, the devil’s work. However, I consider it science. I see myself not as a devil's puppet, but rather a Van Gough to my own starry night. A Mozart to my own tune. A Gustave Eiffel to my own Eiffel tower. Those who may oppose to my art must never have felt the urge that artists get. The feeling that you must create, no matter the opinion of the people. Nor the danger it may put you in, physically or mentally.

Taking a breath of excitement and horror, I begin to unravel the cloth containing my tools. Each limb, eat part of my canvas not attached, to the whole must be sewn together. Despite my excitement, I remain professional. I am calm and my hands are sturdy as I pinch the skin of the neck with my forceps and carefully push my curved needle into the tissue with my needle driver. I use a horizontal suture, making sure my stitches are perfectly spaced. The dozens of horizontal lines of the upper and lower neck fit together in perfect unity.

My work does not end there, with the winds still howling about my tower, and the lighting ever-so-often illuminating my workspace, I diligently continue my work. I stitch the limbs together using the same amount of care for every one. From the upper and lower thigh to the pinky to the hand,each limb is sutured with the same amount of care and perfection.

It took hours of careful stitching, but it is finally done. The limbs that previously fell to no use, torn from their resting body, now reside back together. It’s beautiful. It’s art.

I cart it over to my bay window, lightning growing even more restless, however I will not be using it for my creature. Insead, before I step outside to the vastness that is the night, I cart the canvas to another steel operating table. On it is a pig, sedated but still breathing. In it the first stroke to my canvas. The beating heart.

I prep the pig and gather all the tools I may need, my canvas beside me, cutting into it blood gushes out. I suck up the blood and continue on.

Cutting

Carving

Splicing

Continuing until I have it, the beating heart, extracted from the poor animal. My bloodied hands carry it to my artwork and gently place it into its chest cavity. Careful and with precision, like the Lord when carefully carving into Adam and extracting his rib. I place it in and quickly attach the nerves of the brain stem placed in the corpse moments before my first suture. I push the pig away from me, it is no use now that I have obtained its organ, and reach for my defibrillator. I have minutes to restart this heart and therefore the brain.

As shocks leave my canvas convulsing, my thoughts trail back to my claim.

Frankenstein was the monster. He was the monster who played with life and death, terrorizing his town. He was the monster who on a dark stormy night did the unthinkable.

The monster had created a man.

Frankenstien had gathered limbs for his own canvas. He had sutured him with simple interrupted sutures, and shocked him to life with lightning. He made his creature, his son, knowing the kind of monster he could be. He was the monster. The monster was Frankenstien.

A gasp of breath breaks my train of thought. Dropping the paddles of the defibrillator I too gasp. I gasp in awe and shock. In terror and amazement. My masterpiece sits up and turns to face me. It stares at me, and I at it.

I stand there staring at my masterpiece and it stares at its artist. It’s Frankentien.

“Welcome back home, beloved.”

[stellarflex]

[gemistar-888]

Tale of Thousand Stars

[sixplusfive]

It's the tradition for the men of this island to jump in yelling the name of the girl he likes. Naruse-kun~! Go for it!

Nのために For N (2014) | 1.01 dir. Tsukahara Ayuko, Yamamoto Takeyoshi, Anami Akihiro eng subs. subie06 @ d-addicts

[starlightandmusings]

psa:

the hunchback of notre dame was not and never should have been intended for children. it’s a complex story about love, lust, power dynamics and racism, and by watering it down into a G-RATED kids’ cartoon (with cute singing gargoyles!) we lost out on all the richness of it. esmeralda is just a pretty dancing girl. phoebus is a nice soldier. against this backdrop, “hellfire” is startlingly frightening and creepy. (because it’s adult!) quasimodo sees esmeralda as an angel, frollo sees her as the Devil incarnate, and there’s little else to bring us to a correct conclusion of her character. victor hugo would’ve been mortified. (also, the hypersexualization of a woman of color…)

that doesn’t apply as much to the disney stage musical. here, disney actually meant this for adults. here, you get sweeping orchestral music, a plethora of lyrically complex songs, a richly textured frollo, and even an emotional glimpse of jehan. it’s not without its faults: despite a little more character development, esmeralda is still a very adult sex symbol (hey! she was supposed to be 16!), and phoebus is rewritten as a heroic little himbo. and gringoire is still Not in the picture. but at least you get a better representation of what victor hugo actually intended.

the thing is, two-hour adaptations of massive novels are probably always going to fall short. but victor hugo chose to write SO in depth about lust, sin, misogyny, hypocrisy, death, racism, unrequited love, etc etc etc! there is so much in this book! and the thing is that i believe children are capable of understanding complex themes, and i believe that they should be exposed to rich media. age-appropriate, of course, and i don’t think that this is a story appropriate for young children — but even if disney was planning to cut out the frollo lust plotline (which they didn’t), at least represent women? and romani people? and racism? and unrequited love? in a way that’s both palatable and well-written. we don’t need to water things down for children to understand them. take mr. roger’s neighborhood! take star trek! take bluey! these are all shows that tackle hard themes in a kid-friendly way. more of this please!!!

and if it comes to a story like hunchback, where the big storyline is that a catholic priest is lusting after a young girl? do us a favor and don’t make it into a kid’s cartoon.

[easterndelights]

嗤う淑女 The Mocking Lady (2024) | EP 3

"From now on, we'll be together forever."

[dailyasiandramas]

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Love Sea | S01E03

Thai Drama - 2024

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Native Title: #ต้องรักมหาสมุทร

Genres: #LGBTQ+ #Romance

Tags: #Adapted from a Novel #Writer Male Lead

Cast: #Peat Wasuthorn #Fort Thitipong

Couple: #Peat x Fort

[bladdictedsworld]

"When Nan agreed to take revenge against Mac on behalf of his friend Day because you respect and admire him, but then you fall in love and you are willing to always protect him from whoever even from Day himself, the person you look up to like a brother."

Love Syndrome

Thai Drama

[theannypetite]

Global Examination

Time to Read: 1 minute You Huo was suddenly pulled into a strange version of university entrance examinations with his cousin and uncle. But these exams aren’t what you’d expect, with a wrong answer possibly resulting in death. Meanwhile, Invigilators 001 and his subordinates 154 and 922 make sure the examinees follow the rules. But You Huo isn’t the type to follow rules if they make things…

[pirhanya]

Did anyone else read the Webtoon Original Wendybird from about a year ago?

I bring this up in light of the new Peter Pan and Wendy movie. People are complaining about the changes they made, but a lot of these changes were already made in the pre mentioned webcomic and I don’t think anyone was complaining about that.

Aside minor changes like character’s appearance and gender, they expanded upon the world. The use of shadows alone is super cool. Peter himself is an actual dick but faces consequences. Hook is interesting, her crew is interesting. The Lost Kids are even more tragic. I truly recommend it.

Unfortunately, due to lack of engagement, it got cancelled. It ends on a frustrating cliffhanger and (spoiler alert) the flashfoward we see in the first episode doesn’t come back.

I do hope it gets a resurgence, but as it is, it’s a well expanded version of Peter Pan that needs more attention.

[blfanfest]

The Sign

Details

Title: ลางสังหรณ์

Also known as: Premonition, Langsanghon

of episodes: 12

Adapted from: the novel "Premonition" (ลางสังหรณ์) by I-Rain-Yia (ไอเรนเยีย)

Director: A Natthaphong Wongkaweepairod

Production Company: Idol Factory

Summary

Episodes

For as long as Tharn can remember, he's had premonitions about those around him, sensing both the good and the bad.

Partners on a team of special investigators, when kind and cheerful Tharn met clever and charming Phaya, it felt as though they'd known each other for a long time.

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[sixplusfive]

Nのために For N (2014) | 1.04 dir. Tsukahara Ayuko, Yamamoto Takeyoshi, Anami Akihiro eng subs. subie06 @ d-addicts

[the-forgotten-lily]

Never have I ever been more happy about a book being adapted into a movie/series since the days of the Grishaverse or Where the Crawdads Sing.

I still can't believe that this actually got adapted into a series. Like.... I've literally WAITED for this to happen. The book never failed to fill my soul and seeing the trailer.....it just makes me so goddamn happy.

I'm a sucker for books and fictional works that are set in the time of war.