#I'LL NEVER RECOVER

[c0zyrainfall]

I think that the turning point for Anya is here. You'll notice her "realization" expression carries over in the next panel. She read Damian's mind, and she realized he is just like her. He loves his father so much, he just wants to impress him. And isn't that exactly what she's trying to do right now? That's why she trusts him with her secret. He's the only person who would ever understand .

[whichzwitch]

Xerxes Break 🍬

I made these a while ago, but i never shared here! I should draw Xerxes more often, I love him so much ♡

[vinylattes]

But then again, other people's lovelives always seems much more straightforward than our own

[scullysconstant]

BONES | Harbingers in the Fountain (5.01)

[athousandbyeol]

can i kiss you? kiss you as your enchanté? kiss you as someone who likes you. kiss you... // i'm going to kiss you, okay? can i do more? what will you do? i'm gonna do what lovers do together. but... but if you're not ready yet, it's okay.

Enchanté (2022) // Perfect 10 Liners (2024)

[eddiestightywhities]

they're idiots. everybody's in love with them.

[respectthepetty]

I'm here to report on the colors in episode four of Wandee Goodday, but first a few stray thoughts like I have another image to add to my collection of Yak looking at Dee crazy,

yet still going along with whatever Dee wants.

Also, Yak being bothered that Dee didn't immediately think of him as a friend was a good beat in establishing the "friend" portion of their benefits. They are friends who share their lives with each other and scheme together, and I'm glad the show is explicitly stating that.

Because the way the conversation began paralleled the way Yak wants to approach Taem about their relationship - What are we? "Are we datin'? Are we fuckin'? Are we best friends? Are we somethin' in between that?"

But also the nurse stating Yak must care a lot for his lover to get the vaccine and Yak looking immediately at Dee was perfection because 1) safe sex isn't just about you but about the people you are sleeping with,

2) you shouldn't be ashamed of caring about sexual health, so even if you hide behind queer pamphlets, drink water, get the shot, wear the condoms, and use the lube. Also, PrEP isn't just for men just like HPV vaccinations aren't just for women, and

3) it showed that Yak does care enough about DEE, his lover, to take their sexual health seriously -> Yak is on that Bed Friend's King level of sexy, and I'd go through the entire Kama Sutra with them both once all our test results came back clear.

Translations are always iffy but Ter mentioning that Dee wasn't thinking about his professional persona while Yak reminded Dee to not include his face in the pictures and Yei mentioned his brother being fine with Cher when they first started dating gives me hope that this show is going to lean more into the layers of being out because even though that "666" told me Ter was el diablo, he continues to make comments like that and Golf's other show, The Eclipse (which has been featured often in this show) was very much about (not) passing and levels of outness.

Yei and Yak's dad was a world champion boxer, yet he wasn't mentioned in this mom-focused episode and the mom is the one who opened the gym, so is the space that Cher and Yei are giving Yak to figure his feelings out something they weren't given by the father? Because Cher was worried about the pressure Yei was putting on Yak to move up a class.

And if the gym was the mom's, with all of its yellow, is Yak really like his mom as Dee assumed?

Because putting the opening scenes in black and white is an easy flashback technique, but in this particular story, where Yak and his mom are bright yellow, it was a painfully good choice to take the color and brightness out of the scene.

And it was an even better choice to parallel Dee comforting Yak in the same way Yak comforted him with a warmer (yellow) light than his normal purple one.

Because Dee is already in his feelings about Yak without realizing how deep he was, which is why he is wearing a soft yellow while Yak is wearing Dee's fake blue.

When they practiced what Yak would say to Taem, Dee thought about all their moments together, so he is falling quickly, while the signs are pointing out that Yak isn't there yet.

But I wouldn't be there either if I was still daydreaming about this beautiful goddess who always rescues Yak with her brilliance, sassy personality, singular focus, and yellow folders, but that sounds a lot like someone else.

A Purple Prince who is also brilliant and focused on winning but wild and sassy. Good to know Yak has a type. (Sidenote: the music choices swinging between romantic to tension-filled as the scene flipped between Taem and Dee was another great choice)

Because Taem is taken, even if not officially. She matches her guy. She had on a dark brown and black shirt, so he had on a dark brown cardigan with a black tie.

And she had on a brown-striped shirt with a black star, and he had on a brown jacket with black writing and a black tie.

Then again, Dee is no consolation prize. Not looking like that at least.

No wonder Yak is conflicted about what he feels when he looks at Dee because he most certainly is sexually attracted to him because *duh* who wouldn't be attracted to Dee (TER!), but as they sit in Yak's black and yellow room, it becomes more apparent that whatever he is feeling isn't just sexual desire.

And when Dee scratches his back just like his mom used to while tutoring him, it starts to become clearer that Dee, wearing his necklace, and in orange which is sooooo close to yellow fits easily into his life. (Sidenote: Together with Me taught me that in Thai, being itchy is slang for being horny, so good for this show and its layers)

Dee works so well in Yak's life that Yak is willing to get three shots to continue to have sex with him which can take anywhere from eight months to over a year to complete because each dose is spaced out by at least two-to-six months. Basically, Yak committed to a long-term plan . . . with Dee, who is chilling in his yellow-striped shirt.

So it's not surprising that Yak is wearing a deeper blue next week as he holds Dee on the couch since he is far more invested in this fake relationship than he originally intended.

I could write 5,000 more posts about them and this episode which I probably will.

But know that even though the blue Yak is wearing is getting deeper, I will not be satisfied until it turns into purple.

That's when I'll know they are both in love.

[maxxmaxxing]

who else thought that bugs were immune to fall damage

[the-last-panqueque]

"Let's meet again on the other side"

Después de un tiempo sin publicar nada les traigo un dibujito de Suguru x Satoru juntitos en el mas allá porque literalmente no he podido ser la misma desde que JJK me pegó semejante historia trágica con esos dos. Mi corazón duele, me quema, me lastima. Gege cuando te atrape Gege.

En fin, espero que les guste. Si me disculpan, me voy a llorar antes de que empiece mi reunión del trabajo.

-PQQ

[live-laugh-ukotoa]

WHAT THE FUCK RICK. YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE SLICK second titan war: ON PERCYS BIRTHDAY. second giant war: we can reason that since trials of apollo is six months after the giant war, it was in august. from evidence from the books, it was A FEW DAYS BEFORE PERCYS BIRTHDAY. tower of nero: IN FUCKING AUGUST TOO. (six months of trials, starting in january. ending in august.) RICK WTF YOU GOT AGAINST PERCY HE CAN NEVER CELEBRATE HIS BIRTHDAY AGAIN BRO

[narnia-dreamer]

The thing I love the most about Just a to the moon series beach episode is the fact that... They never hid the truth about Neil.

If you read the comics, if you played the games, watched the trailer or simply looked at the menu screen... It was there. It was clearly there. During the game itself there were multiple elements that made it clear. The books at the bookshop. And then seeing Quincey and Lynri at the airport. You knew. Of course you knew.

If you played the To the moon mini episodes you had long known (I did play them when they first came out). And yet while playing the game you feel just like Eva. And you desperately try to think there are other possibilities, other realities, you try your best not to think that Neil is dead. You convince yourself there must be something else, something more. It's just a trick, they are playing you, Neil is alive and well.

But then you confront Neil and the truth comes crashing down on you. You've always known that, but when Eva says that Neil is dead is the moment you start coming to terms with it. You stop being denial, just like Eva is forced to.

And just like her, you hope you can live another moment with Neil despite knowing that it's not real.

And every now and then, you open the game again and just look at Neil and Eva on the Beach and wish they got their happy ending. And we all know Eva is doing that as well.

[itoshikha]

the love i have for shows like arcane will always persist, but as much as i adore being here to watch them, at the same time i despise this dull emptiness i feel after they're finished. it's like my soul left as arcane ended and now i'm just a husk of who i was continuing to live on.

it's weird: getting so consumed by a piece of media that it's so incredibly difficult to stand up from your computer and go live your life afterwards. it's only a temporary period though; a few months later i'll look back on it like a warm, comforting childhood memory.

i loved arcane. i love arcane. that's it.

banners /dividers by @/cafekitsune

[thebroccolination]

THE CLASS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN KAWI AND PISAENG MADE CLEAR FROM THE VERY FIRST SCENE IN "BE MY FAVORITE"

The other day I realized something: the VERY FIRST SCENE of Be My Favorite sets up the class difference between Kawi and Pisaeng.

This series is so bafflingly smart and well-written.

Okay, so! Kawi is the child of a loving single parent who seems to have struggled financially all Kawi's life, so when Kawi decides on humanities for his major, everyone around him tells him he’s selfish and that he should be choosing a major that will enable him to make sufficient money to take care of his father.

And even though Kawi's father is lovely and encourages his son to choose whatever path that will make him happiest, the financial strain and personal guilt of his choice clearly weighs on Kawi.

One of the first things we learn about Kawi as a character in this first scene is that he doesn’t have enough money to socialize. Even though his peers are actively reaching out to him and would probably hang out with him even if he didn't pay to go out with them, it's not an easy thing to have to tell friends constantly that you can't afford to do what they want to do. So he closes himself off from everyone around him.

Meanwhile, Pisaeng is ludicrously wealthy, and while he’s also the child of a single parent, she’s involved in several industries that ensure Pisaeng a wide network of opportunities for his future. He has his own worries, but as we see over and over: money isn’t an issue he's ever struggled with or will likely ever struggle with.

So here’s what I love about the series' opening scene:

Pisaeng is in the background the whole time—asleep. And the first thing we see Kawi do is almost fall asleep. But the reasons are different: Kawi is exhausted trying to make ends meet and study, while Pisaeng has the luxury of coasting through school.

So, later in the series when Kawi tells Pisaeng that life isn’t as easy for him and he doesn’t just get things the way Pisaeng does, we’ve already seen that seed planted in the very first scene!

Kawi is a humanities major because he's passionate about writing and music and he wants to be a creative professional one day. Pisaeng probably just picked a major he thought he could breeze through.

And I love how Waa's put Pisaeng in the background with his face turned away from the classroom, because even though Kawi is the more obviously closed off of the two, Pisaeng is just as isolated when the series begins.

I love this series so much.

[moviemandyy]

THE LEATHER??! THE MOMMY CHOKER?!? THE BLACK EYELINER??!! THEY WANT ME DEAD

[prometheus-ghost]

Well, it's THAT day of remembrance. How are we doing today, boat fam? I'm still a combination of 😭 and:

[scottiethescott]

my Roman empire is the way Friedrich intentionally loses the last box match because Albrecht didn't like violence ☹️

And he smiles as he is on the ground like 😭😭